Khalid Siddig

Khalid Siddig is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit (DSG) and the Program Leader of the Sudan Strategy Support Program (SSSP) at the International Food Policy Research Institute. He is an agricultural economist whose research uses economywide models to assess the policy options for governing water, energy, and primary resources uses in developing countries and their subsequent impact on economic growth, environment, and income distribution. He is interested in linkages between economy-wide models and the water, energy, climate, and river basin models. He published intensively in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field and implemented capacity building programs on economywide modeling in Benin, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Palestine, Kenya, Namibia, Sudan, and the USA. Khalid holds a Habilitation degree (2015) from the University of Hohenheim, Germany, a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Giessen, Germany (2009), MSc degrees in Agricultural Economics (2002) and Computer Science (2004), respectively, from the University of Khartoum and Al Neelain University in Sudan, after obtaining simultaneous two BSc degrees in Agriculture and Computer science, respectively from the University of Khartoum, and the International University of Africa, Sudan (1999). Before joining IFPRI, Khalid held senior research and teaching positions at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, University of Khartoum, Sudan and Al Neelain University, Sudan.